Alannah Peters is a junior majoring in journalism and minoring in public relations. In her spare time, she can be found trying new coffee shops with friends, traveling the U.S. or going on hot girl walks at Lake Alice.
Recent controversy surrounding Grok — the artificial intelligence chatbot created by Elon Musk’s company xAI and integrated into the social media platform X — demonstrates how free speech can be stretched beyond recognition.
One of the most common accusations directed at conservatives is that you cannot be both pro-life and supportive of the death penalty. If life is sacred, as anti-death penalty voters argue, it must be protected in all circumstances — from the womb to the prison cell.
Political engagement among young people has fractured into two exhausting extremes, both of which push students toward disengagement.
If students want to see tangible changes during their time at UF, they need to start paying closer attention to state and local races that directly affect campus life.
I’ve lived in Florida for my entire life. Since 2012, my family has lived in the same home on the outskirts of Orlando. Drives that once took 40 minutes now stretch into an hour or more, a result of rapid population growth and unchecked development in a state unprepared to absorb it.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the right to speak freely, including speech that can be racist, sexist or xenophobic.
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